Carrowkeel Glebe

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel Glebe, from 38 m² to 664,944 m² (66.49 ha, 164.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowkeel Glebe in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050255

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowkeel Glebe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowkeel Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• Fanad Glebe, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1790–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement with attic level former Church of Ireland rectory on ‘L-shaped’ plan, built c. 1795, having six-bay two-storey return and service wing to north with integral segmental-headed carriage-arch. Now in use as a house with accommodation to former service wing. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having stone eaves course, stone ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with two stage smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends with stepped coping and decorative clayware pots over. Pitched rough-hewn natural slate roof to former servant quarters with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with projecting cut stone string course over first floor openings to the south elevation, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined rendered walls to east gable elevation, roughcast rendered walls to north. Roughcast rendered walls to service wing. Square-headed window openings having stone sills, and with nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows over at first floor level. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with a variety of timber sliding sash windows; single round-headed window opening to centre of rear elevation lighting stair hall. Square-headed window openings to service wing having mainly replacement casement windows. Square-headed doorway to the centre of the main elevation (south) having timber panelled door, architraved surround, flanking timber pilasters with console brackets over supporting timber entablature over, plain three-pane overlight, and with cut stone plinth blocks to base. Doorway approached by flight of cut stone steps. Wrought-iron gates to carriage-arch to service wing. Set back from road in mature site having lawns and mature trees to south and west. Yard to the rear enclosed to the east by service wing and to the east by rubble stone boundary wall. Ruinous single-storey outbuilding to west\north-west of site having remains of pitched natural slate roof, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with brick reveals and remains of timber fittings, and segmental-headed carriage-arch; modern outbuilding attached. Former walled garden (see 40901737) to the north of house having rubble stone boundary walls; gateway to the south having a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on circular-plan) with rubble stone capping. Main entrance to the south (pre-1836) having a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having ball finials over; gateway flanked to either side by curved sections of rubble stone boundary wall. Secondary gateway to the west of house (post 1836) comprising a roughly squared and coursed gate piers (on square-plan) with stepped capping over. Rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage to the west. Located in elevated site to the north of Rosnakil and Tamney, and to the east of Lagmore Bay on the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Associated Church of Ireland church (see 40901701) located to the south.

• Walled garden, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden (on square\rectangular-plan) associated with former Fanad Church of Ireland rectory (see 40901705), built\laid-out c. 1795. Now in use for agricultural use. Limestone rubble stone boundary walls (bonded with lime mortar) having remnants of lime render over, and with narrow cut stone coping course with rubble stone coping over. Square-headed entrance to the south-east corner having cut stone plinth blocks to base, stone voussoirs over, and with wrought-iron flat bar gate. Gateway to the south having rubble stone gate piers (on circular-plan) with stepped cut stone coping over surmounted by rubble stone, and having modern gate. Ruinous single-storey with attic level outbuilding built into the west boundary wall having remains of pitched natural slate roof (now partially collapsed), cut stone eaves course, roughcast lime rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings, some now blocked, having red brick reveals, and with integral segmental-headed carriage-arch to the south elevation having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs over. Located to the rear (north) of associated house, and to the north of Tamney to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Mature trees to interior of garden.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Carrowkeel Glebe, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowkeel Glebe.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Carrowkeel Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Carrowkeel Glebe

Area

1,135,499 m² (113.55 ha, 280.59 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Greenfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

359 people lived in 134 households in the Greenfort electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 57% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolback, Croaghan, Fanavolty, Kindrum, Kinnalough, Maghernalaght, Newtown Springfield, Springfield, Tawny, Toome

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Carrowkeel Glebe on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.